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- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
practice." The hypocrisy issue is especially challenging for parent companies of multiple brands. Fournier and Avery cite the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Unilever's marketing effort focused on encouraging women to embrace their... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Honoring a legacy
her parents in 1964. “It’s not about taking over the company business; it’s really about honoring the legacy of my parents. It’s about the spirit of my parents, their value system, and their beliefs. When I joined my parents, my father in... View Details
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Dusty Register
cards. I couldn’t have cared less. Who is one person from your life that you admire the most today? My dad grew up in central Florida to two working parents without significant access to means, but was fortunate enough to be a... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
“How do I show leadership presence when I’m this exhausted?” Working parents were typically offered platitudes about work-life integration, Dowling realized, which was a shortcoming in talent development that became all the more glaring a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
and lawyer, has worked with underserved populations around the world. “At our house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class,” Dasgupta laughs. “I grew up influenced by both my parents — I'm very interested in the private... View Details
- Portrait Project
Haoran Jiang
The distant humming and bashing from the nearby factory floor kept me from falling asleep on the couch in my father’s makeshift office; I was only five years old. After my parents separated, I was being raised by my father, a humble guard... View Details
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
the Armed Forces Alumni Association, and the MoMBA and Crimson Parents clubs, I’ve been able to connect with some of the kindest, most inspiring people who add color and meaning to the MBA experience. Eric Deng (MBA 2023) Hometown: Salt... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
down.” [break] Kim moved to the United States in 1974, at age 11, and lived with his uncle in West Orange, New Jersey, until his parents and sister joined him a year later. South Korean president Park Chung Hee, elected in 1963, brought... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health advertising campaigns that reached 2.1... View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
Expense is a convenient boogeyman. Secondly, the old denial case is still around. Even today, I hear people say, “I don’t see color.” That’s fine. Race is not real, but the effects of racism are. Our research on schools, for instance, finds that even if View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
goes on. We have started to acknowledge these truths, and we’re toying with interventions, at both the individual level and the policy level to overcome time poverty. Some places are trying four-day workweeks (the United States, as with paid View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
Instead of joining the other parents in a competition for weak Wi-Fi in a crowded waiting room, Dixon camped out in her car. She used the time to strategize her startup; news radio kept her company. In all likelihood she was in her car,... View Details
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Phillip Jones
Phillip Jones was in a sixth-grade classroom when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. His parents, like other parents that day, sat him down for a talk. But they were also both Air Force pilots who were obligated to explain that they would not... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
ferrantraite The Muslim ban. The Wall. Children separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The past two years have seen an aggressive push by the Trump administration against both legal and illegal immigration. But it’s not just... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang
especially true as the first in my family to go to grad school. The biggest influence in my life has been my parents. Throughout my childhood, my parents worked multiple jobs to give me the educational opportunities I had—that’s a big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
from which his and Cathy’s three children graduated. There is, however, a second religion in the family: sports. Brennan, a marathon runner, coached his kids’ teams to the point that some neighborhood parents thought he worked for the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
opening up the shareholding of the parent trading company, but by floating separate 'free-standing' firms on the British capital markets, which the merchant houses continued to control through management contracts and other means in the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
adoptive parents was short: at the age of eight his mother died, and his father sent him to live with family friends in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Ellison was born in Layton, Utah, in 1916. Her grandfather, Ephraim Peter ("E.P.") Ellison,... View Details